Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 969 Temporary Retreat
Yes! It works!
However, protecting the hilt of the Three-Foot Water Sword amidst such a dense storm of slashes is still quite challenging.

Without any hesitation, Xia Shou immediately opened the second door. As the few bottles of desire materials accumulated in the shadows were exhausted, the door wrapped with red threads and yellow paper talismans burst open.

Bright red silk and rows of large red lanterns with the character "喜" (happiness) written on them hung down from the depths of the red mist that suddenly appeared overhead.

Suddenly, the sound of suona horns rang out, playing mournful music, and a man dressed in wedding attire jumped out of the door.

The Ghost Groom possesses an extremely ferocious desire to attack, as well as extremely high physical strength and abnormal resistance. He even injured the writer last time. Although he was eventually cut into powder by the writer, he still managed to hold on for a while.

The writer's slash was copied from Shangguan Yan's. Judging from the intensity of the slash, Sprite's ordinary slash does not seem to be superior to Shangguan Yan's.

Based on this speculation, the ghost groom might be able to hold out a little longer.

Xia Shou didn't expect the Ghost Bridegroom to cause any effective damage to Sprite. He just needed a shield to temporarily escape the raging rain of slashes and have time to complete the next few key steps.

After the sword was used once, the blade disappeared again. Clearly, repeating the story that had already been told would not have a good restorative effect.

So……

The story of the centipede's withered, stunted eyes!
Xia Shou prayed in his heart that he was a serious person, someone who could keep even meaningless promises. Only in this way... only in this way could he shake the greatest possibility ten years from now with his current thoughts!
Through his remaining eye, he saw.

With the activation of the power of the remnant eye, the Three-Foot Water from ten years later replaced the Three-Foot Water in Xia Shou's hand. The sword that had disappeared reappeared and burst out with an incomparably dazzling white light!

At this moment, Xia Shou couldn't help but praise himself: I'm fucking reliable!

"cut!"

Xia Shou aimed at the target, swung his sword, and instantly teleported in front of Sprite, easily hitting her with his second strike.

Immediately, the brilliance of the Three-Foot Water sword dimmed by one-tenth, but it was obvious that Xia Shou felt that the raging slashes had also weakened in terms of power and density.

The effect of the three-foot water's abnormal suppression is so remarkable!!

It truly lives up to its reputation as a mythical relic!
While attacking with the Three-Foot Water, Xia Shou no longer maintained his elemental body, but instead transformed back into a Blood Demon's physical body, meticulously constructing a skeletal structure within his blood-based body.

After the ritual held by Ire during the Divine Law incident, Xia Shou took the opportunity to devour the corpses of many trial participants who had died the first time. One of these trial participants possessed a portion of the bone marrow of a certain creature: it could change the hardness and toughness of bones, making them extremely elastic and resilient.

He now needs to make his bones strong enough to withstand the slashing, using his own body as a protective shield for the hilt of the three-foot-long sword!
Using the non-Newtonian fluids of the flesh swamp, the unique toughness of his bones at this moment, and the Blood Demon's ability to reshape, he should be able to temporarily withstand Sprite's slashes.

If you can land consecutive sword strikes and suppress Sprite's superpower to the minimum, your chances of winning will greatly increase!

Sprite peeled a scar off her body and held it up to Xia Shou.

Xia Shou held his breath.

The power of forbidden knowledge is not within the suppression range of the three-foot water.

But this was exactly what he had expected!
Just before Sprite activated Unresolved Wound, Natsumi created a mirror. After spatial adjustments through mirror magic, the mirror reflected Sprite's own head.

This is a deception tactic that can only be used once. Only by pulling the reflex nerves to their limit through the scorpion's spine can a mirror be created at the final, most crucial moment, setting up the trap in advance and leaving Sprite with no room to back out.

Like cheating at the last second in rock-paper-scissors, pulling back the cover just as the opponent steps into the trap and their center of gravity shifts, is a skill that Xia Shou can master thanks to his nerves enhanced by the Scorpion Spine!

The next second, Sprite's entire head burst into flames, turning into white ash in an instant, but the ash instantly returned to normal, and all the injuries transformed back into new, unresolved scars.

A second later, Sprite paused in her chanting.

The mental impact of the head injury arrived a second later, interrupting Sprite's finishing chant.

"So many tricks up your sleeve," Sprite said coldly as she regained consciousness.

Despite the slashing attack, the Ghost Bridegroom charged towards Sprite. Sprite raised his hand and used a random, unresolved wound to blast the Ghost Bridegroom into pieces, instantly killing the powerful anomaly.

Then, Spright raised his hand and unleashed a powerful slash that, along with Xia Shou's palm, cleaved the hilt of the Three-Foot Water sword in two, destroying it completely.

Xia Shou stood there blankly, staring at the hand that had reformed and the Three-Foot Water sword that had been destroyed and whose light had disappeared. He couldn't believe it. It was destroyed just like that.
Why was the slash just now so much more powerful?

"A very powerful relic. It will probably be considered part of mythology in future generations. But you don't think that kind of slash was my normal level of ability, do you?"

As they spoke, Sprite's slashing storm, weakened by the Three Feet Water, gradually increased in intensity and density, quickly returning to its state before it was weakened!
Sprite stared intently at Xia Shou and said, "That sword is quite good; it seems to be able to temporarily suppress the release of power."

Don't misunderstand, even now, my power is still being suppressed, but I never said that what I said just now was my full strength.

If that sword forced me to suppress my full strength to 80%, then the intensity of my strikes that I've maintained all along has only been 50% of my power.

That ever-present slashing domain is like breathing to me; it's just something to deal with trash that doesn't deserve to come near me.

So that's how it is. Is this the difference in strength?

Xia Shou frowned, and without any hesitation, he used a quick step to create distance between himself and the Rift King. Then, he used several more quick steps in succession, and his figure disappeared into a small dot.

This scene left all the onlookers completely dumbfounded.

How is this going?

Are the people from the control bureau trying to escape?

Indeed, running away is normal, especially when facing an invincible enemy. If an ordinary person has the ability to run, they will definitely run.

But he's from the Control Bureau! He's the man known as the Witch's trump card!

Sprite saw that Natsume had run far away in just a few seconds and had no intention of giving chase.

He never came here to fight anyone. His only goal from beginning to end was to have a bunch of reckless ants blocking his way and delaying him.

If the obstacle wisely moves aside, he has no interest in continuing to argue.

Sprite continued walking towards the lake in Twilight City, proceeding in a straight line towards the capital, toward the seven-pronged gate that leads to the modern world.

(End of this chapter)